What's the difference between tincture and tint?

Tincture


Definition:

  • (n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
  • (n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
  • (n.) The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
  • (n.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
  • (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
  • (n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
  • (v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
  • (v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
  • (2) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
  • (4) The patient was a 17-year-old female Indian who had received some 3 to 8 cc of a 20 percent mixture of podophyllum resin in compound tincture of benzoin (approximately equal to 0.4 gm of podophylotoxin) as an application to her vulvar condylomata.
  • (5) Soaking the cannulae for 20 minutes in a 2% tincture of iodine solution also appears to be useful for decontamination purposes.
  • (6) The results showed that dressings containing tincture of benzoin adversely affected wound healing in children.
  • (7) The uptake capacity of granulocytes for L-DOPA varies with a clock-time and a season judging from fluorescent intensity and tincture of granulocytes.
  • (8) Corresponding reductions for Hibitane tinted tincture were 3.6903, 4.0984 and 4.1253 and for the aqueous formulation, 1.5003, 1.5721 and 1.8692.
  • (9) The tincture, evaporated to dryness, re-constituted in an equal volume of water and administered by stomach tube or intraperitoneal injection, antagonized the antinociceptive effect of morphine in two separate test (hot-plate and tail flick).
  • (10) Intraperitoneal injection of Panax ginseng C. A. Mey tincture, Polyscias filicifolia Bailey tincture, Panax ginseng tincture or Eleutherococcus Maxim extract to rats produced a rise in plasma corticosterone 1 hour after the treatment.
  • (11) Iodophors tested in this study demonstrated a distinct superiority to noncomplexed iodine solutions (tincture and aqueous iodine solutions) as wound and skin cleansers.
  • (12) The conduction bundle was stained, well enough to be identified, with iodine tincture, with Lugol's solution, and with iodine gas.
  • (13) For the tincture of iodine control, the time was 30 minutes.
  • (14) The present procedure is less time-consuming and requires about 45 and 90 min for the assay of ipeca tincture and powder, respectively.
  • (15) In the model 10(10) bacteria are given via oro-gastric tube following intravenous cimetidine and oral sodium bicarbonate and prior to intraperitoneal tincture of opium.
  • (16) The present study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of two topical ungual preparations: a 28% solution of tioconazole and a 2% tincture of miconazole.
  • (17) Based on the amount of these compounds in the tincture and their activities we conclude that bergapten is mainly responsible for the photomutagenicity of the tincture.
  • (18) 1-2 cm2 large swabs were dissolved in the tincture, and with the help of a Karaya plate and an occlusive dressing was administered to the skin in the antebrachii anterior region.
  • (19) A simplified method for the quantitative analysis of hyoscyamine hydrobromide or atropine in Belladonna Tincture USP is described.
  • (20) This study confirms earlier reports on the effectiveness of quassia tincture, which seems to be a useful alternative to clophenothane.

Tint


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight coloring.
  • (n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
  • (n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
  • (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
  • (v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tinted self-curing sealant was applied to the entire occlusal surface of each tooth.
  • (2) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
  • (3) Despite the severity of the illness, Michael, eyes shielded by tinted glasses he declined to take off when asked by photographers, promised to complete the tour.
  • (4) When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile.
  • (5) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
  • (6) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
  • (7) Few cars have number plates; most have black-tinted windows.
  • (8) Clinical examination showed green tinting toward the distal ends of the most superficial strands of hair.
  • (9) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
  • (10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (11) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
  • (12) Mark Curry, founder and director at MAD Ventures says Singles Day will act as “both a great launch pad to showcase TINT to the Chinese market and as an opportunity to drive trial” of the new product.
  • (13) The Guardian view on the automated future: fewer shops and fewer people | Editorial Read more The problem with this rose-tinted view of automation, however, is its focus on big averages that take little account of individuals’ experiences.
  • (14) We noted a statistically significant correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the following: color tint of the lower eyelid conjunctiva, nail-bed rubor, nail-bed blanching, and palmar crease rubor.
  • (15) There is a political tint to this whole episode,” he added, claiming the media was taking its cue from Democrats.
  • (16) He relished his public status as no-nonsense voice of a common-sense socialism that had an increasingly nationalistic tint.
  • (17) "People with rose-tinted glasses are more responsive to positive things in the environment.
  • (18) Different dyes were used to tint Soflens contact lenses.
  • (19) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was measured by both a radial immunodiffusion (RID) kit from Immuno AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and a Tint Elize enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit from CytRx Biopool Ltd. (Umeå, Sweden) in serum samples that had been stored at -20 and -70 degrees C for six months.
  • (20) The transmittance properties of 96 tinted lenses were examined to determine whether these lenses met the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80.3 standards for traffic signal transmittances and color shifts.